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Definition of Adultery |
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Adultery
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. Adulteration; corruption. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. Faithlessness in religion. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. Injury; degradation; ruin. Related Definitions: Act, Adulteration, Adultery, And, Another, As, Bed, Bishop, Bishopric, By, Commandment, Corruption, Degradation, During, Fine, For, Forbidden, Her, His, Husband, Imposed, In, Injury, Intercourse, Into, Intrusion, Life, Man, Marriage, Married, Of, Offense, Or, Penalty, Person, Religion, Ruin, Seventh, Sexual, Than, The, Thought, To, Unchastity, Voluntary, Well, Wife, With, Woman |
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Adultery Quotations
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. Samuel Butler Adultery is the application of democracy to love. H. L. Mencken Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. Saint Augustine Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. Edmund Burke French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. Lafcadio Hearn |
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Adultery Translations
adultery in Dutch is echtbreuk, overspel adultery in German is Ehebruch adultery in Italian is adulterio, adulterino adultery in Spanish is adulterio |
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